Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025So "The Network State" cult book is uhh... seems to be advocating for a return to 'terra nullius', which as an Australian, I can tell you right now is one of those dog whistle terms "...we’re going back to terra incognita, to terra nullius, to the time of secret societies..." 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025so i can start my own 'network state' based on any communal thing i want but its gotta align with the specifics of whatever weird tech nerd wants the basics of these commumities to be gonna be wild when i try and make one whose sole purpose is to smear poo on the doors of other network states 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025when will this stop being a tech demo (2024) miniature sculpture, photography #art #artist #h0 #miniature #trains 010
Reposted by Sober Boblauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/01/2025it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat 504168462834
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 23/01/2025More shots from a shoot I did of my mates drag persona. The moment she pulled out the shirt I knew I needed an anime convention themed shoot. #drag #costume #anime #photoshoot #portrait 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 21/01/2025hey yanks, be aware that the other countries that Meta has messed about in like this before experienced mass violence and ethnic cleansing. we can see the censorship happening from overseas 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Did a swamp photoshoot with me mate billy as the new king #photoshoot #art #photography #portrait #drag #dragking 060
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Nothing makes me happier than using discount party supplies to make my version of Θέμις [Themis], Goddess of Justice. #dslr #mythology #art #costume 031
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025craving pickled ginger but not sushi, stuck in a loop of wondering if they will let me pay a dollar or something just for one of those packets of pink addictive good stuff 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 14/01/2025more prop making glow ups for more photoshoots. the cheaper the wig, the more I feel ok mucking about with it. #art #photoshoot #costume 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Thank u @edzitron.com for directly calling out tech companies who use disability as a way to hide from criticism. Sick to death of "its for disabilities!" As an excuse to make products that ignore science and lived experience. We are not jargon buzzwords. 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Nothing makes me appreciate optical sciences like being able to transform a regular #dslr camera body into a proper close up shooting rig with realistically, nothing more added to it than a long dark tube #photography #macro 0142
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Making photo props with cut price christmas decorations. I think the next #photoshoot will involve more glitter 040
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Are you smarter than a millionare homeowner with no insurance and a love of eucalyptus, but aren't sure how to prepare for a #fire? Here's some basic tips that we use to survive #eucalyptus trees, for fire breaks and home prep. You NEED to have ind. water tanks if you want to stay put 000
Reposted by Sober Bobceej @ceej.online · 09/01/2025Despite the heated rhetoric floating around today, our decision to update our algorithms to launch a "microdrone" containing a small shaped charge capable of maiming any user who "seems gay" should not be seen as anything other than a reaffirmation of our commitments to fostering free speech 1265276
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Comparing the public information given to those in #California, compared to my city in Australia, is shocking. The Cal. page gives scant information and useless generic tips. The Aus page gives full lists of what needed and additional help with info. thought this was normal, not so apparently 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 09/01/202576,000 hectare #fire in Australia: no major international news impact 15,000 hectare fire in America: constant coverage world wide because some rich peoples homes burnt Posts about ' #climate change is now affecting us!' show how little yank media cared about its impacts anywhere else in the world 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Trying to find basic information about the 2025 #honda Scrambler is infuriating. #AI garbage comes up before any official information or reviews of its display at a recent show. The main articles claiming to give details on its tech specs are actively wrong. 100
Reposted by Sober Bobcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/01/2025you don't see a lot of "my job on the commune after the revolution" posts anymore since everyone making them realized they'd rather die than be occasionally inconvenienced in any way in service to their neighbors and community 873041303
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 03/01/2025There's only two genders of #photography 'how to' articles: either buy a super expensive piece of equipment, or do some heinous shit to your gear with sand and duct tape. 020
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025The dirty secret about #AI is that it won't be used to replace domestic chores, because that labour is not seen as valuable enough to automate, and the act of doing so would require much more intense technical development than just text/image gen, despite the massive life improvements it could cause 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025New Hyperfixation: the Woodford Folk Festival's financials, history, lack of #disability access. After J.Sri was brutalised by the hippie festival security for quietly holding a 🍉 flag, it reminded me of their faux inclusivity for disabled folks when I attended. 🧵 210
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I dont care if you're #disabled for 3 days or 3 decades, you can use the term as you feel you need. Wanna say you used to be disabled? Absoloutely fine. Wanna say you'll always be disabled? Go for it love, yell it. Not the right word for you? Valid as heck, explore what feels good for you 062
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 27/12/2024People who upload their #3dprinting files for free online for highly specific hybrid parts they've modeled by hand, are the true heros 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 26/12/2024My youngest budgie passed this morning. Runt of the clutch, being picked on. Spent 4 good years being a spoilt little prince with a shitty attitude to match. He appreciated neck scritches in life as much as he did dying with me today 100
Reposted by Sober Bobfull slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Plymouth Barracuda concept art by John Samsen (1969) 24110
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 25/12/2024proof from my mother that giving #secondhand #gifts is vastly superior to random junk for #christmas (a 1980s macro bellows that fits my modern D7200, and a film negative expander, accompanied by a grab bag of random lens filters) 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024millet hand training for one traumatised cockateil and two budgies with zero survival instincts 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Genuinely feeling stuck posting my #art online because of internal anxiety about AI theft. I never felt like this before, sometimes even seeing my over all interaction with social media as a core part of my processes. Now when I do so, instead of feeling additive or challenging, it feels scary 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024tonight's #photoshoot work developing more practical effects because my digital commentaries only work if I can do it physicslly. Unedited lightpainting work #art #dslr #photograhy #witch #artist #sigil 050
Reposted by Sober BobEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 19153681815
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The ground is saturated. The rainy month has not even arrived. The drains are backed up. And people who have moved to Brisbane recently are complaining, not knowing what to do to prepare. A repeat of 2011/22 will be devistating without that prep and recovery volunteering 000
Reposted by Sober BobSober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024"John is mute because of a car accident injury, please use appropate communication methods with him" "Sure thing!" "David is mute because of his autism, please use appropriate communication methods with him" "Actually that is unreasonable and I demand that he talks the way I want to" 0171
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024For anyone wondering, the level of rorting the #disabled in Australia has reached the level where disabled people on the #NDIS are ENCOURAGED to pay $30k+ from their care packages usually assigned for OT and carers hours, to do a 440 hour UNPAID INTERNSHIP WITH NO JOB GUARUNTEE 101
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Light experiments with the language used to deny #healthcare to people accross continents. The #NIDS is at a stage where disabled kids pay to attend internships and unqualified reviewers assess and deny claims written by professionals #art #dslr #nikon 031
Reposted by Sober Bobeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 08/12/2024friendly reminder: stop using the word “gooning” the word was culturally appropriated and has perverted the proud australian tradition of chugging box wine 39783123
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Because im on a motorbike rant run, I thought I would show youse the noise/movement capture I took when properly disposing of a used helmet (no they can not be recycled or donated at all, i will die on this hill like many cyclists have died from poor helmet use) 010
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024ducati this, hayabusa that... don't be intimidated by choice. be like me and ride a motorbike that treats you like an idiot baby who can't shift and won't kick back but that can get you out of trouble and you can change your own oil on (any Honda over 500cc) 110
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024motorbike groups and even manufacturers are some of the most disability inclusive. Need a wheelchair bike? You got it bby. Got athritis in your hands? Heres a million ways to modify handles to suit your needs without even needing a mechanic. Disability parking? Screw that, park anywhere YOU want 231
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Discovered recently that kids these days don't even really know of chickenpox, and its shocking if someone gets it. Makes me want to cry honestly; I developed post-viral lifelong #pots in the 90's due to this disesse, and it is so healing to know kids have a chance to avoid suffering like this 100
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024This is the sort of niche beef on the internet that I miss from days of old, I'm gonna learn things about weather modelling I will never use and that will also terrify me 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Maybe if tradwives and conservative ilk actually followed the laws of the 1940's era that they idealize, I wouldn't judge them so harshly "....the sale of unpasteurised milk is banned in Australia – and has been since the 1940s" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comRaw milk: What is it? Is it safe? Is it legal?As Mountain View Farm recalls its milk from stores we ask the key questions surrounding unpasteurised milk 100
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Direct action and striking work 💕 they were expecting people to meet pick/pack rates that would make an amazon warehouse look like a cake walk www.theage.com.au/national/vic...theage.com.auWoolworths strikes deal with union to end warehouse industrial disputeThe United Workers Union declared victory and said they had secured a clause stopping workers being disciplined for failing to meet monitored pick rates. 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024one aspect of music (and all art) learning for me was the weird level of complexity provided by what I can only describe as an american fetishisation with exact theory in the teaching; reading and attending other countties classes has beem how I've succeeded to the same level 100
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Premium leaked medical insanity. Remember, "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024it took all day of plugging in guitar pedals and messing about with my harp to discover that actually the reason I almost ruined a valve amp with feedback was because apparently electricty gremlins don't play nice with the forcefields they create and now im back to thinking technology is magic 120
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024when something as simple and successfully treatable as adhd, a lifelong and life shortening condition, takes multiple doctors and thousands of dollars to treat with regular interuptions in treatment, that affects 10% of the population, we can see how anything more complex is ignored 000
Sober Bob @soberbobmonthly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024In today's "American journalists never caring about the rest of the world", they reference a bank by name that DOESNT EXIST. If you bother to click through, its the COMMONWEALTH BANK, who already have been using computerised systems to detect fraud, and are trying to avoid further scruitiny 000